Gancher’s play, set during the 2016 Presidential election, dramatizes Russian cyber interference by the Internet Research Agency and explores the impact of fake news and division. Despite the passage of time, the play's themes remain relevant in today's world.
Gancher’s “ workplace comedy ,” now at the Vineyard Theatre, is set during the six-month run-up to the 2016 Presidential election, and dramatizes Russian cyber interference by the Internet Research Agency , in St. Petersburg. For years, the real-life Russian company used bogus social-media accounts to sow fake news and real division, apparently manufacturing millions of tweets’ worth of institutional mistrust and norm-eroding nastiness.
(In Gancher’s play, we hear a supervisor exhorting her underlings to normalize the word “pussy” to diminish Americans’ shock at Donald Trump’s hot-mike vulgarities.) Despite the intervening insurrections and invasions, the world of “Russian Troll Farm” doesn’t feel that distant. Perhaps you recognize the still constant drip of conspiracy theories in your own feeds, or maybe you saw this very play, which aired online during the pandemic shutdown, just before the election in 202
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